The Polish History of Literature as a Lieu de Mémoire
The Polish History of Literature as a Lieu de Mémoire

Author(s): Maciej Junkiert
Subject(s): Philosophy, Psychology, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: history of literature (discipline); Adam Mickiewicz; Maria Janion
Summary/Abstract: The paper contains an analysis of the genealogy of 19th-century Polish research in the field of literary history. My inquiry contains a comparison between literary research in Germany and in Poland. From this point of view, literary history was an important factor in the process of building a modern nation. Furthermore, literary historians also played the role of indispensable authorities on the cultural past and present: in Germany as professors of universities, and in Poland during the partitions as intellectuals and writers.

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